i am. back to back terror attacks in norway claimed more than a dozen lives r t how's the latest from oslo and what has brought terror to the doorstep of a country more or less unscathed by it until now. back in this country the debt clock is ticking louder for u.s. lawmakers how much longer will politicians flirt with the default line. workers to see their votes running creating figures like captain america and sort of the great make it seem growers. and now showing marvel comics best selling bore propaganda comes to a theater near you. good

evening it's friday july twenty second eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm laurin lister in your watching r.t. well terror has been brought to norway's doorstep twin attacks rocked the norwegian capital of oslo today seventeen are confirmed dead i wouldn't have put the toll closer to thirty police believe these events were connected first a car bomb it detonated between government buildings one where the prime minister works after that a man described as a norwegian dressed as a police officer opened fire at a labor party youth conference just twenty miles from oslo which the prime minister was set to attend now this suspect has reportedly been captured but the bigger picture of this that's happened in a second wealthiest nation in the world with of the highest living standards best education and which has remained for the most part unscathed by terror attacks now we don't know who is responsible for these however some analysts say norway's

increased military involvement in nato efforts in both libya and afghanistan has made it more susceptible. the prime minister earlier said he did not want to speculate about the libya connection and earlier i spoke with our correspondent daniela loga who actually is in oslo and i asked her with all of the history of norway which has not had any violence of this sort it's never come to oslo i asked how they're reacting. right now. is an increased police reaction in this very extensive reaction so there are armored. cars there armored police they need some army guards very low here groundspeed trying to just get to the bottom of what is still going on here is the mansion this explosion that rocked the center of the capital as basically people working in cable working weekend and very very. capital and there was an explosion that pretty much

rockets that are to be with you know just being blown out of all these central office is possibly chime understeer of the country but it's hard to get is certain people are dead in that explosion and they've got another interview that police are saying is really made its first call and there it has been a shooting you can't. tell us what you think we heard twitter who or i would guess who or it's a thirty saudis that are like that against again this hasn't earned them we're hearing. out you know with. our. well one person. from asian and so. we're all going on like how are people making sense of it as far

as what they think is the reason that this has happened because from what i understand nothing like this has ever happened in oslo. yeah that's being i mean it's really pretty much. as. this country and now we're hearing is the os that leads. me to the region president and certain middle eastern countries is it possibly be it's five per words that are so called soul station or some super spins. responsibility we're going to have to our. thoughts were the fact that because french or however so-called we're looking person was behind this shooting at you all right well we are going to continue to follow this and that was our key correspondent daniela logan bringing us that report from oslo where this is all happening now and countdown to default if lawmakers do not act the clock is ticking august second is the deadline that the

u.s. has given to raise the debt ceiling saying after that it won't have the cash to pay its bills today is a loose deadline it's been reported for lawmakers to reach an agreement on raising the ceiling in order to get a bill passed by the august second deadline but today we have president obama say talks have broken down he gave an update just a short time ago here's what he said. i just got a call about a half hour ago from speaker boehner who indicated that he was going to be walking away from the negotiations that we've been engaged in here the white house. washington is still debating the debt they're going to continue to but it had already caused plenty of problems when out of the fault ratings agencies have us credit on downgrade watch states are reportedly already having trouble borrowing money as a result of the deadlock average folks aren't sure if they'll get their social security checks and global investors like china who hold more than one trillion

dollars and u.s. debt are telling lawmakers to get this done now while they're debating what to cut and trying to find a big compromise on the deficit investigative journalist grade class of compromise is a misnomer and here is why boortz the compromise the look here's what's happened is that george bush when he was president from two thousand and one to two thousand and eight one of. the surplus given jim of eighty six billion dollars a year by bill clinton turned it into a six hundred million dollars per year deficit adding three trillion dollars us. eric cantor for all those bush's wars and for the weapons for the tax cuts now these guys don't want to pay the bill to try to get out of. there at the at the tax cuts for the itch or is somehow

a compromise means that the. dollars will be paid for by eliminating benefits or the working class are going to change the eula for social security which is if you get caught before it's students who are eight much. older . and paying off debt created i george bush gregory ask you this that let me ask a couple questions whether or not it was george bush's fault that we have these massive deficits and have this massive debt now and obama has done a very fair share of spending as well too so regardless of whose fault it is would you agree with something that they economists believe which is that the deficit and our dad is i mean the country is bankrupt and we have to do something about it do you agree with that or not. absolutely not it's not our debt i didn't borrow the money i didn't barbara junior class submarine the cost to be a billion apiece bush or thirty six i didn't get any delivered by amazon to my door

ok let's talk about defense talk about is that not it's not our get but i think that's that the misnomer that's been used all through the debate i didn't encourage the states the american people the elderly people on social security didn't encourage it gets better and receding get it better and better it's didn't increase the debt it was the result of bush's wars pushes tax cuts while spending for these programs now are the beneficiaries basically people who got the money don't want to pay it back so what they've come up with this term it's our deficit it's early so you're saying that the what you're essentially alleging is that republicans are the ones that benefited the most from george w. bush in spending or cutting and now they want everybody else to pay for the benefits they thought because the deficit needs to be taken care of. i don't look at it as partisan no it's kind of come down that way that is that the rich that we know that you have a massive shift that will created to some extent by government policy during the

bush years to the rich but some argue. now they should pay back asking the poor in america to pay back the deaths caused by giving money to the rich so that's not the kind of condiment arguing that by reducing adat reducing the deficit that think that actually what's needed in order to demonstrate that economy so that it can grow jobs so that the poor do you had jobs then make more money because he and i as my colleague and fellow congress paul krugman says that's just complete nut you don't stop you don't cut government deficits to get yourself out of a depression that's going to big you know creating a bigger hole for us to fall into it but we need to do is increased spending for lower income people for the elderly because they'll spend it and get us out of this depression we're going to pressure you can't see your way out of a depression but problem is that people are not spending laid against are sitting

on a trillion dollars in in cash and not lending it out our problem is the lack of spending in the united states a lack of demand a lack of capital being given out we're building it and it has nothing to do really quickly if you notice it. that was investigative journalist greg the last now to report murdoch scandal has the public outrage that immoral or illegal tabloid tactics of the mainstream media surrounds phone hacking of course but is this just one example of how privacy in general and in this country has been eroded at a time when nine hundred eighty four while in comparisons are used so much when talking about privacy in the us it is almost become fright what is the reality can americans expect any privacy especially in this age when so much of our information is on the internet find out i went straight to the source i spoke to independent security researcher sandy cam carr who was a former hacker and i asked of the hacker just how easy is it to get people's

personal information online here's what he said well it's pretty interesting it's it's actually really easy today and the crazy thing is it's getting easier and easier every day pretty much we hear about all sorts of just just kids and you know myself and lots of other people i know just started out as kids into different web sites and it could be you know from just a simple computer of the regular consumer or could be just huge corporation government and we hear about it all the time in the news today we do hear about all the time so my question is is any of our information online any of our personal information. well it's it's hard to give a true answer that pretty much what most people will say is while it's usually well protected in the you know dated encrypted however now we have more and more information there in the cloud it's just you have your facebook or twitter or your google apps or just your information online you can be in your d.m.v.

or just different government files if you have information and while there's usually some sort of protection on those sometimes there's not i mean just recently we heard of a bank where everything all the credit card numbers were entirely on encrypted and it was it was just sort of the easy attack that anyone's ever heard of just to produce new credit card numbers and to basically deal lots of money from from a pretty pretty big bank and to do something like that are you someone that has a very sophisticated skills are you could you be a fourteen year old in your parents' office who just you know kind of taking a liking to you know running and analysis of how to engage the computer world. well it's pretty interesting you can go both ways because we hear about the fourteen year olds who are hacking into government system and they can definitely do it all you need is a little understanding of how some of this technology works and that doesn't mean there really a kid can just break into any different system you know we hear about pacts that

are actually pretty pretty tough and pretty sophisticated some even say that governments are behind a lot of a lot of this these cyber attacks that are happening and you know a lot of people are calling in cyber warfare at this point in cyber terrorism because it's potentially government backpacking that that's happening that's really sophisticated and takes probably a lot of money and a lot of effort for the fourteen year old who could potentially break into a lot of things and no doubt there are there are smart to be able to do that but there are two ends of the spectrum right i get off what they're essentially trying to break into one of the things that you did find evidence of though is something having to do with google you found the google android based smartphones were setting precise g.p.s. locations and other data back to doodle several times an hour is that something that's continuing to go on and how concerned what kind of concern should people have about that oh yeah i mean i think it's absolutely crazy that the phone that you have in your pocket you don't necessarily know but it's collecting basically

where you are at all times and continuously sending this up and it's even happening on the on other phones like the apple i phone but that from you are letting people know that you know we need to be concerned about our phones sending our location back to the company that we have purchased them from or using them for service and finding out that information do people have any. way to know that any of their information is private or to be certain or should people pretty much just assume that in this day and age if your stuff out there if someone is going to be able to get their hands on it. i think if i make that assumption today i mean i can't think of. a person who would believe that their their i phone would be sending their information about where they're located especially after they turned off any sort of location features i mean it's it's kind of crazy to believe that that that's the case but you know whether it's a bug or intentional it's happening in other places as well so you were never

warned that that was happening but i'm not sure how you can make any assumptions about any other data you have out there you have to assume that someone they will look at that data and you're sending it somewhere right going on someone's computer computer network you have to make that assumption that if you're not entirely comfortable with your data being out there than you should put it out there be careful thousand good advice from independent security researchers tammy camp are now leonard peltier have you heard of a well you have or haven't you might just be very surprised at this story he's sixty six has many health problems and he's been put in solitary confinement where he's been ordered to spend twenty three to twenty four hours a day for the next six months now the american indian movement activist has been in prison for more than thirty five years he was convicted of killing two f.b.i. agents but to supporters which range from foreign parliaments to the dalai lama to the late mother teresa he is a political prisoner not guilty wrongfully convicted now sixty six years old he

suffers from diabetes he's had a stroke and he's partially blind and now he's suffering and what his lawyer robert brian called a helpful i spoke to that lawyer earlier and started off our conversation by asking him what led to call two years move into solitary because there were some pretty minor infractions take a listen. but i think the point is that these are very minor offenses of waste litter is not guilty but aside from that he's accused of so much a good samaritan in scotland send them a twenty pound note. as a contribution because he knows he has very little money to use for an id inmates are not supposed to have money everything is done through a common stereo and they have a cast and so what he did was. mailed it back out essentially a lady who was a friend to you know saddam hussein of the oneida tribe and he said in his covering

note that look i don't even know if this is real but somebody sent it to me and i'm not supposed to add it so i'm sending it to you. the other charge is that a previous in my cell may had rigged some wires high up in the cell higher than leonard they have a bunk bed littered slate from the bottom and he cannot get on the top one and his previous cell my head jury rigged a wire we're not sure whether esmond ten are why he was doing it and he and this is like a year ago when he and leonard had an argument leonard said look you're not supposed to be tampering with things like this you will get us in trouble and the guy argued with them but the next day i apologized and said you know and so leonard started then removed left and no idea was there so they find a wire and a guard claimed that when they stupidly pulled the wires together. he was shot and i heard and i read that as the blame fell on on leonard peltier and my question

is are these type of small infractions is it typical for a prisoner to be put in solitary confinement for them now this is this is not this is a typical what we had to remember who later tell us leonard is a leader and activist and he has been throughout his adult life in the american genyen move. it is his whole focus of his being is helping his people on the pine ridge reservation where the be a huge out occurred in night and nine hundred seventy s. that led to his boss them ventured years donors and. unemployment rate there is right at ninety percent as ninety percent of people resumes really aren't just he was there a silly elders to our help or people we think they're good for us this whole thing was a set up they happen here. just say oh this is a court on monday when they charged randy to spell. didn't remove

dental strewing liches objects rolling around. this was just after the anniversary of the shoot out also the leg that weekend just one day was the anniversary of the what americans call the buskers. though it looks like on the heels of those who went first to them and it disappears very close to the wind and or hundreds of pick a space and deal with many prisoners from the fear of other countries but this was a set up i missed and they come in right on the heels of the anniversary of the that i thought i had em sakit cell phone is religious objects around and then punish him. but i. think it's totally unfounded i mean you know what they created he was a terrorist the way they were treating him and and the partition and you said in

your lead in to the segment i think you hit it he's of advanced years he's now in a small cell as we stand today i'm still a student is there a condition where you are a strange life where i am here in san francisco he's in a small cell he's quest for peace and he just didn't cautiously you can't write because the squint just pours all his hands only paper and we have them or we're talking about an elderly person who has a. as hard as a diet at right and it's really a can if we think of it this way but an elderly person with the park condition and it's on. as robert bryan bringing us the latest on leonard peltier his client now the captain america movie comes out today i don't know if you're running off to go see it tonight but before you get up for the latest action packed summer blockbuster to get you out of the heat of where you are is anything like washington d.c. is today i have a little warning for you it's from my colleague anastasio charkha about the

underlying messages being sent in movies like this and just to give you behind him . the stores the stripes and the shield americano questionable taste added that. the comic book hero created after dawn of world war two captain america is back costume clad and rolling back the hero provided an extra boost at a time of pride and straight to the us where it is kind of like an old athlete standing in front of the say trophy case as part scoring over remembering his old glory meant to lure you into the magic of war back then could propaganda still be the caps purpose today now it's so sophisticated that you definitely don't always realize that because of the audience's tastes they don't like tricks ranging from way too obvious product placement all the way up to except for a more impressionable audience that would go to see captain america these days if

you thought that the fighting in glamorous world of hollywood exists simply to provide job dropping entertainment look out some of the messages being sent out to exist for a reason to take any action filled war movie filmmakers get if they're going to work if they want to make a film about the war or any war and they want to use military technology they have to go on and they go to pentagon and again we use these caves in a cruiser. rejects any collaboration hollywood and hollywood directors so directors know exactly what they're doing they're getting their funding and their weaponry from the pentagon it's a very close relationship a very close relationship reflected in countless works to come out of tinseltown king kong a lot of racist stereotyping is that after going to try to get us through an evasion of central africa saving private ryan and apocalypse now which used helicopters which actually were being used to put down and say american insurgents

hotel rwanda here's the last king of scotland which is a false story of uganda fears and about somalia and the list goes. on and on and on compelling film such as rambo to end up even shaping your history here's a monologue b. in which sylvester stallone just talking about how he and other troops to get from vietnam a group literally spat upon by. my workload no factual evidence of such an act was ever found by historians but after being able to get people started remembering that it happened to them while america's enemies can and go the regularity with which politics get reflected in hollywood productions is impressive we all have relationships are like they're complicated they're not all good or all bad and yet when it comes to relationships with other countries when it comes with to relationships with policies we see the world in very black and white terms a major movie making corporation metro golden mayor is reportedly changing villains

from chinese to north koreans and blockbuster red dawn china is too big an order of u.s. entertainment to take the risk of offending a country hollywood is both guilty of pushing messages out but it's also guilty of reflecting cultural messages without a lot of insight the military entertainment complex pentagon's tool of manipulation has been around from the forty's and remains of rampant today when kids go to bed at night in america to go to bed with their captain america or superhero clothing line and they had sweeney dreams about becoming a superhero. nasseri innocent people convinced that war is for heroes only if war is such a terrible thing creating figures like captain america sort of make make it seem horowitz there is no heroism and you kill because you're angry because they killed your friend you're just trying to get home and that home all sorts of captains clad in patriotic gear will resume trying to convince you of what's right and our team.

so are superheroes missions not really as valiant. and really about saving lives but more about pushing a method or even government propaganda well earlier i spoke to about this with dr matthew alford he's author of death's book real power hollywood cinema and american supremacy and as launching ten has had a long history of working with hollywood and using hollywood to get its message out i started our conversation asking him about the nature of that relationship today as you heard in that report one of the guests about how in order to work with the pentagon the pentagon has to approve your script laughed at this characterizes the relationship here's what he thought well exactly yeah the pens can support sun affectively senses where necessary and this isn't a great many films transformers are came out the last two years those of franchises rules of engagement. still some say thousand and five we were soldiers are going to

lose but down through lies executive decision the list goes on and on and it's done this for decades since the start of birth of a nation which is the ku klux klan recruitment film wayne's an oscar winner from one in twenty seven and of course in global two as well and if it was co-opted hollywood was co-opted by the government for the war effort oh you could rightly write good approach of contemporary films that depict the armed services house for support from the pentagon in some way and of course the cia support as well since ninety five in french eyes is like twenty four and films like the recruit and some wolf is all of which have an effect on film scripts so it's about a third there that have this involvement directly with the government or with the pentagon fighting off on their scripts that means that the majority are independent so to what extent do you think that message is being cued and feta thousand and thirty a thing. well i think there isn't a large body of films that are supported by the government in some way or another

and requests for changes by contract and so i think is very important but the same time i agree that there is a wider problem of the irresponsibility of of corporations that are running hollywood or that basically make up hollywood and if i corporate managers are just as serious a problem as the impact of the government in terms of shaping history so for example. rupert murdoch being topical at the moment although not much is usually said about his involvement in filmmaking the he's of course head of the head of news corps and therefore head of twentieth century fox and he in a small report that was filed in the new york times in two thousand said that he didn't like the way that films were going on the twentieth century fox effectively got rid of his. whole of the head of twentieth century fox hole mechanic because he didn't like films that were challenging like a fight club and the beach they were going down a darker political direction and so and this led of course to that corporation

producing even more dumbed down material pro pro torture franchises like taken in twenty four and government types and films like the nicole kidman film australia which was very much tied in with their tourist campaign so even when there's no interference from the government produces a liable to produce films that support american foreign policy that generally support government or corporations. that was author dr matthew alford some to consider going into captain america and stay tuned to our t.v. next week it is time to dust off your superhero capes and costumes as thousands flock to the two thousand and eleven comic convention in san diego are these disguises really the best escape from the economic realities of the country and who is going to save the world from economic doom and gloom we will have that bring you the answer plus a double edged sword of justice in the u.s. it protects the money but what about those who it neglects we'll bring you the story of an american who after the legal system failed him is finally now being

exonerated and finally the dollar is down but is it time for it to be out people are creating their own currency right here in the nation's capital and state lawmakers are saying they need to take matters into their own hands in case the federal reserve collapses altogether those are some of the stories on tap next week you won't want to miss them so stay tuned right here to our t.v. and that is going to do it for now for more on the stories we covered you can go to our t dot com slash usa you can also check out our youtube page it's youtube dot com slash r t america you can follow me on twitter at lauren lyster don't miss me too much next week i'll be filling in on the alone a show but as always our to america will bring you lots of good news right here same time same place have a great weekend. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else or see some other part of the real.